Safety-pin.



L, 131mm.-

I SAFETY PIN. APPLIUATION FILED MAY 20, 1909.

1,024,717. Patnted Apr.30,1912.

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LEON BRODY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed May 20, 1909. Serial No. 497,252,

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LEON BRODY, a citizen.

of the United States, residing in the bor ough of Brooklyn, in the city of New York, county of Kings, State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Safety-Pins, of which the following is a specification.

The invention contemplates a safety-pin which may be easily applied to and detached from the clothing or other fabric by the use of one hand without danger of sticking the pin into the body, and which, when applied, will remain efiectually locked until purposely withdrawn, also a pin in which the exposed portions when the pin is in use, will be pressed fiat to the fabric and prevented from turning as well as present a neat appearance. A safety-pin fulfilling these conditions I have devised by providing a frame and a pin proper which are slidably connected to be co-extensible, the frame having a keeper and a guide respectively disposed at the opposite ends, and the pin slidable through the guide and having a guide bar slidably engaged with the frame and preferably provided with a hump in its outer end portion arranged to throyv the point of the pin outwardly out of the fab ric preparatory to the entering of the said point into the keeper and then throw said point inwardly against the keeper as the travel of the pin is completed.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification in which similar characters of ref erence indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is an outer face view of a safetypin constructed in accordance with my invention, the frame and pin being shown fully extended. Fig. 2 is an edge view of the safety pin showing the frame in longitudinal section and the pin in initial position to pass into the fabric. Fig. 3 is a similar sectional view showing the position taken by the point of the pin as the hump passes into the guide. Fig. 4: is a similar view showing the pin fully projected, and Fig. 5 is an edge view of a modified form of the pin.

More specifically described the safety pin consists of a frame 10 and a pin proper 11 the pin and frame being slidably connected to be co-extensible and each preferably constructed of a single piece of wire the wire of which the frame is made being bent upon itself slightly to one side of the center to form two approximately parallel strands, both of which in that form of the invention shown in Figs. 1 to 4 inclusive, are bowed or slightly curved longitudinally with the Patented Apr. 30, 1912.

free end port-ion of the longer strand bent a into substantial U-for1n crosswise of the body of the frame, with the inner arm 12 of the U portion forming a bearing to hold the pin outwardly and embraced by an eye 13 formed at the end of the other strand of the frame and the outer arm of the U portion having a guiding eye 14 intermediate its length and a similar eye 15 at its extremity, the eye 14: projecting to the outer side of the frame. The opposite or outer end of the frame is turned inwardly to provide a keeper 16. The wire of which the pin proper is formed is also bent upon itself to form two substantially parallel strands one of which is pointed at the extremity to form the pin and passes through the guide eye 14, and the other passes through the guide eye 15 and has an eye 17 at its end in sliding embrace with one of the strands of the frame. At the junction of the in and its guide bar the wire is preferably lat-- erally ofiset from the pin to form a finger piece 18 by which the pin is operated. The guide eye 14 is arranged to direct the pin proper centrally between the side bars or strands of the frame 10, and over the inner arm 12 of the U portion. The point of the pin in the preferred form of my invention is curved inwardly and forms a reverse curve with the intermediate portion of the pin as clearly shown in Figs. 2, 8, and 4, the curve of the pin again reversing adjacent to the finger piece 18 forming a hump 19, thus the convex sides of the pin point and hump face outwardly and the convex side of the inner portion of the pin faces inwardly, the latter being reverse to the curvature of the frame whereby the pin when forced inwardly will have a tendency to pass into a substantial depth of the fabric as when there are several layers or garments pinned together.

The action of the pin at successive points of its travel can be seen from Figs. 2, 3, and 4, Fig. 2 showing the position of the pin preparatory to projecting it into the fabric. It is only necessary that the finger piece of the pin be grasped for on forcing the pin inwardly, the point engages in the fabric and the inner arm of the U portion bears (in the i'naterial at the point of entry serving as a stop and preventing the frame from moving forward. As the guide eye ll rides on the hump 19 the point of the pin is drawn outwardly so that it will pass to the outside of the fabric as shown in Fig. On the continued .movei'nent of the pin the hump passes through the guide eye and abruptly forces the point of the pin against the keeper. The pin. is effectually locked in this position by the hump which requires slight ellort tending to draw the pin out- 'ardly as by a pull on the finger piece 18 before the pin can be released.

In the modified form of the invention shown in Fig. 5, the construction is in all respects the same as the preferred form of the pin except that the frame is made straight instead of bowed and the pin proper is also straightened out.

It is obvious that the pin constructed as shown, in Figs. 1 to 4t inclusive could be used with the straight frame shown in Fig. 5, or the curved frame used with a straight pin.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. The combination in a safety pin, of a frame having side bars and provided with guiding eyes at one end, and a pin slidable through one of the guide eyes of the frame betwe n the side bars and having a guide bar slidable through the other guide eye of the frame and provided with an eye slidablc on one of the said side bars.

2. The combination in asafety pin, of a resend? frame and a pin, the frame being constructed of a single piece of wire bent upon itself intermediate its length to form side bars, with one of said bars bent crosswise of the frame into U-form, the inner arm of the U portion being connected to the other side bar and the outer arm of the U portion. having a guiding eye ii'itermediate its length and a guiding eye at its extremity and the pin being constructed of a single piece of wire bent upon itself to form in connection with the pin a guide bar, with the guide bar slidable through the eye at the extremity of the arm of the U portion and having an eye slidable on. one of the side bars of the frame and the pin slidable through the other guiding eye between the side members of the frame.

8. The combination in a safety piin of a frame having side bars and provided with a keeper and a guide respectively disposed at opposite ends and a pin slidable through the guide of the frame between the side bars and having a guide bar slidably engaged with one of the side members of the frame to direct the pin, said pin having a bump in its length arranged to throw the point of the pin outwardly as the hump passes through the guiding eye of the frame and over the bearing or inner arm of the frame.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two subscribii'lg witnesses.

LEON BRODY. Vitnesses FRANCES PATTERSON, HERBERT Pa'r'rnnson.

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